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While I am speaking the opportunity is lost.
While I am speaking the opportunity is lost.
One gets a cross for his crime, the other a crown.
One gets a cross for his crime, the other a crown.
The snow has at last melted, the fields regain their herbage, and
the trees their leaves.
The snow has at last melted, the fields regain their herbage, and
the trees their leaves.
Handsome features are a silent recommendation.
Handsome features are a silent recommendation.
Don't go near the water until you learn how to swim.
Don't go near the water until you learn how to swim.
Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been
discarded, excels that which he has longed read more
Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been
discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once,
and seek again that which he despised.
Catch the opportunity while it lasts, and rely not on what the
morrow may bring.
Catch the opportunity while it lasts, and rely not on what the
morrow may bring.
It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
There is no retracing our steps.
There is no retracing our steps.
The smell of money is good, come whence it may. [Alluding to
Vespasian's tax on ordure.]
The smell of money is good, come whence it may. [Alluding to
Vespasian's tax on ordure.]
